Girl assaulted in Elyria

ELYRIA -- A 15-year-old girl was assaulted just after midnight yesterday near the intersection of East Bridge and East River streets with no suspects found.

The girl's mother told police that her daughter "was not an angel" and has had problems with a large number of people at her school.

According to a police report, the girl said she was walking home from Walgreens with a friend. When she approached the intersection, three men came from an alley. One of the men then approached her and shoved her to the ground on her back. Dazed by the fall, she didn't get a good look at any of them, she told police.

She reported seeing a white hand grab her throat and begin choking her as the two other males began kicking her ribs and stomping on her right knee. The girl said she blacked out, and then her friend revived her and said that the three males had run away. The girl went home and was taken to the hospital by her mother, police reported.